Langston Hughes reads The Negro Speaks of.

Nearly 1000 books related to the craft of poetry will now be housed at Allen University. The school will celebrate the grand opening of the Langston Hughes Poetry Center and Library this Saturday. ���In cultures where the written word has effectively.

The Center for Black Literature at Medgar Evers College to.

The Center for Black Literature at Medgar Evers College to Celebrate the Lives of Langston Hughes and Malcolm X During Black History Month. By Brooklyn Reader. In Crown Heights. Jan 23rd, 2015 10:52 am. 0 Comments. 175 Views.

Writer in Residence David Mills to portray Langston Hughes.

david-mills-as-langston-hughes Thursday, January 22, 2015: Take a step back in time to when Jazz greats flocked to Overtown, Miami ��� and head to The Betsy ��� South Beach, as it presents Overture to Overtown 2015 ��� an��.

LANGSTON HUGHES BARRED; Use of Palo Alto School Denied for Address by Poet

PALO ALTO, Calif., April 17 -- Palo Alto High School authorities today banned the use of the school auditorium here for a meeting next Wednesday at which Langston Hughes. Negro poet, will be the featured speaker.. Palo Alto (Calif) HS bars use of bldg for L Hughes address; J Rowell holds ban unconst

BAR HUGHES, NEGRO POET; Californians Cancel Talk as He Denies He Is a Communist

. Cancels L Hughes talk, alleging communistic ties

Libraries celebrate life of LANGSTON HUGHES

Langston Hughes was one of Missouris finest sons: a Joplin-born poet, novelist and playwright who portrayed the dignity and beauty of ordinary African-American life. On Feb. 1, Hughes birthday, and throughout February, the Springfield-Greene County .

Winter Jazz Series revives spirit of Langston Hughes

Along with Chicago-based performers including Dustin Laurenzi on saxophone, Quentin Coaxum on trumpet, Bryan Doherty on bass, Juan Pastor on percussion, Xavier Breaker on drums and Chas Kimbrough on vocal, the spirit of Langston Hughes, the .

Actor portrays black literary figures in Core Ensemble performance

Wearing a snug black suit, actor Jamyl Dobson recited black poet Langston Hughes Let America be America Tuesday night. Dobson delivered every word with so much strength that they echoed within the walls of the Leo J. Welder Center for the Performing .

Langston Hughes 20, South Cobb 13 | Prep Zone: High.

No. 6 Langston Hughes remained atop the Region 3-AAAAAA race Friday with a 20-13 win over South Cobb in the first meeting between the schools. Visiting Hughes controlled the clock and contained Eagles senior��.

The Negro Speaks of Rivers | Academy of American Poets

James Mercer Langston Hughes was born February 1, 1902, in Joplin, Missouri. His parents divorced when he was a young child, and his father moved to Mexico. He was raised by his grandmother until he was thirteen, when he moved to��.

Social Protest Lit.: LANGSTON HUGHES ���Scottsboro��� | Sparking.

A poem by Langston Hughes, Black American poet and writer, entitled Scottsboro from Book IV called ���Out of The Depths.��� This chapter is focused on mans pursuit of remedy for social injustice: 8 BLACK BOYS IN A��.

Invisible Men; Langston Hughes to Arna Bontemps

LANGSTON HUGHES and Arna Bontemps began their writing careers in the 1920s as part of the Harlem Renaissance. They became the two most prolific and widely read black authors of the 20th century. They worked successfully as poets, novelists, historians, dramatists and lyricists. As collaborators, they compiled the anthology The Poetry of the Negro, which is probably most peoples introduction to Afro-American poetry.. Arna Bontemps-Langston Hughes Letters 1925-1967 (Book): Selected and edited by Charles H Nichols reviewed by Nathan Irvin Huggins

Holiday Greetings From LANGSTON HUGHES, Seamus Heaney.

The show, which draws mainly from the Raymond Danowski Poetry Library at Emory University, features holiday cards, valentines, rare editions and more from poets including Langston Hughes, Robert Creeley, Seamus��.

5 Questions on Langston Hughes ��� MLK Link | NC State News

NC State English professor Jason Miller discusses the link between Langston Hughes and Martin Luther King.

A Negro Intellectual Tells His Life Story

IT is fifteen years since Vachel Lindsay brought a new item of literary interest to the public in the discovery of a poet who was a colored bus boy in a Washington hotel. Or had he been, some asked each other, an.. Hughes, Langston; Big Sea

HARLEM HOMECOMING: A READING OF HUGHES

LEAD: The actor Danny Glover was at the Studio Museum in Harlem Thursday night to read the poems of Langston Hughes.

LANGSTON HUGHES on Riots and Conditions in Harlem | The.

By Langston Hughes Photo: Hulton Archive/Getty Images. After a white police officer shot and wounded a black soldier in Harlem in the summer of 1943, portions of the New York City neighborhood erupted in riots. Six people��.

Malcolm Jamal-Warner, Ronald C. McCurdy to perform.

On Thursday night as part of the University of Akrons Contemporaries series, the Langston Hughes Project will present a multimedia interpretation of African-American poet and writer Langston Hughes Ask Your Mama: 12��.

A place at Allen University for poets to find their voices

It brought forth stories as Finney spoke of Langston Hughes insistence that artists ���express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame.��� One man spoke up from the back of the room: He met Hughes years ago, destitute but brilliant, a.

Fine Goings-On in Saint-Marc

WRITING with a hard pencil in thin strokes, the Marcelin brothers of Haiti, in the third of their short novels to be published in the United States, deal in the macabre materials of illicit sex and unhappy.. Thoby-Marcelin, P: The Pencil of God

Allen University formally opens its Langston Hughes Poetry House

Late last summer, Alonzo Stevens wandered into Allen Universitys Langston Hughes Poetry Center intent on finding out what the private historically black college was creating inside the Pine Street bungalow. He had in hand his own published book of.

From Harlem to Paris

I THINK that one definition of the great artist might be the creator who projects the biggest dream in terms of the least person.. Baldwin, J: Notes of a Native Son

Christmas in Harlem, and O Come, All Ye Songs

The musical “Black Nativity,” set mostly in contemporary Harlem, is directed by Kasi Lemmons.. Manohla Dargis reviews movie Black Nativity, adapted from Langston Hughes play and written and directed by Kasi Lemmons; Jennifer Hudson and Jacob Latimore star.

Harlem Renaissance Through the Eyes of Kids (VIDEO)

As we head into Black History Month, kicking off with the birthday of poet Langston Hughes on February 1st, we decided to take a fresh look at the Harlem Renaissance through the eyes of school kids. Black History and the figures associated with it.

Auburn football: QandA with 2015 LB commit Montavious Atkinson

(Editors note: Atkinson went to Langston Hughes, while Holsey went to Creekside. Both are located in Fairburn. The schools are approximately seven miles apart.) What was going through your mind when you heard defensive coordinator Ellis Johnson had .

THE DARKER BROTHER

THE LIFE OF LANGSTON HUGHES Volume One: 1902-1941. I, Too, Sing America. By Arnold Rampersad. Illustrated. 468 pp. New York: Oxford University Press. $22.95. WHAT was Langston Hughes? An overwhelmer. Long ago I felt it was proper to say he had a long reach / strong speech / remedial fears / muscular tears. I gave him titles: Helmsman, hatchet, headlight. And I suggested: See / one restless in the exotic time! and ever, / till the air is cured of its fever. Well, the time is still exotic. The air is not cured of its fever. Hughes is not here to be restless, but his product is here, still restless and capable of quite an agitation, a continuing agitation. Schoolchildren, elders, laborers, maids, doctors, nurses, filing clerks, miners, computer dabblers, salespeople at Macys and Marshall Fields have heard of Langston Hughes and his compulsions - and many can quote from his poetry. An increasing number of scholars and textbook builders find him interesting to study.

Ask Your Mama ��� 12 Moods for Jazz: LANGSTON HUGHES.

Alternating between being sassy, scholarly and humorous, this multimedia performance of Langston Hughes epic poem Ask Your Mama: 12 Moods for Jazz is described as ���a poignant, eloquent and exceptionally soulful work��.

Guest Post: How the Poetry of LANGSTON HUGHES Inspired.

About todays guest writer: W. Jason Miller is associate professor of English at North Carolina State University. He is the author of Langston Hughes and American Lynching Culture, a book that investigates the nearly three��.

Poetry: Celebrating the subtly incendiary LANGSTON HUGHES

1, the 20th Annual Langston Hughes Poetry Reading from 1 to 3:30 p.m. at RISDs Metcalf Auditorium, facilitated so many years now by the devoted Anne Clanton with assists from many, among them Deborah Clemons, educator in public programs at the .

Mailbag: The Critics Criticized

Langston Hughes As part of five days of community-wide events to celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. and his legacy, Salina Arts and Humanities and Kansas Wesleyan University co-present a performance by the Langston Hughes Project on Thursday evening, .

The Deification of Morgan Freeman: An Incomplete Filmography

This weeks Riff, by Alex Pappademas, discusses Morgan Freemans new science show, Through the Wormhole, and how theres a little bit of God in everything he does.. An incomplete filmography tracking the deification of Morgan Freeman.

THE LANGSTON HUGHES PROJECT Multimedia Concert to Play Kingsbury.

The Langston Hughes Project is a multimedia concert performance of Langston Hughes kaleidoscopic jazz poem suite titled, Ask Your Mama: Twelve Moods for Jazz. The poem is Hughes homage in verse and music to the struggle for artistic and social .

The Apollo to Present Ask Your Mama!

. The multimedia musical show based on work by Langston Hughes will be presented for one night on March 23.

LANGSTON HUGHES Library Honors Imhotep Gary Byrd and Nana Camille.

*Legendary New York radio broadcaster/poet/songwriter/recording artist (���The Crown���) Imhotep Gary Byrd and author/performing artist/educator Nana Camille Yarbrough were recipients of special awards presented by the Langston Hughes Library and .

Courtesy photoRonald McCurdy, professor of music at the University of Southern California, and his jazz quartet will perform a multimedia concert of poet Langston Hughes jazz poem suite ���Ask Your Mama: 12 Moods for Jazz��� on Thursday at Kansas .

Bishop Is Challenged

WASHINGTON, July 21 (AP) -- The Un-American Activities Committee challenged Bishop Oxnam tonight with a long list of reported ties to Communist fronts and the Bishop thundered back: I am fundamentally opposed to the whole Communist movement.. Walter queries Bishop Oxnam on his opposition to McCarran-Walter Act, House Un-Amer Activities Com

The Many Moods (and Levels) of Langston Hughes

THE COLLECTED POEMS OF LANGSTON HUGHES Edited by Arnold Rampersad and David Roessel 708 pages. Alfred A. Knopf. $30. What would American art do without the Midwest, so averse to artifice or embellishment in its manners and morals? From Willa Cather (born in 1873) to Langston Hughes (born in 1902), and with Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Marianne Moore and T. S. Eliot in between, our Midwest produced writers who transformed the stern and plain into the rich and strange. They were looking for the route that ties the spare to the ecstatic, and reserve to passionate intensity.

Langston Hughes Called Fighter for Human Dignity; Charm and Vitality Hughess Poetry Had Life, a Quality That Had Kept It Fresh and Spirited Subject Did Not Vary Won Notice as Poet An Accidental Poet Books Taken Off Shelves

As part of that generation that preceded the Wrights, Ellisons and Baldwins, Langston Hughes knew that as with every creative Negro talent, he had to force his way into the consciousness of editors, impresarios and audiences.

A moving and joyous production of Langston Hughes Black.

BLACK NATIVITY, poet Langston Hughes version of the Christmas story, is a work that easily takes on a life of its own. It immerses its audience in the vivid songs, liturgical dance and sermonizing of an old-style��.

Amiri Baraka Didnt Worry About His Politics Overpowering His Poetry

He, like Langston Hughes before him, like Ralph Ellison to some extent, understood the pre-eminence, youd have to say, of Black Music in Black American expressive culture, says Arnold Rampersad, professor Emeritus at Stanford University. He says .

The Center for Black Literature at Medgar Evers College to Celebrate the Lives.

The lives and the works of Langston Hughes and Malcolm X will be highlighted in two engaging literary programs hosted by The Center for Black Literature at Medgar Evers College (MEC) during its 2015 Black History Month Celebration. On Thursday .

He Heard America Jiving

W. Kamau Bell To Record Standup Album at Langston.

We were already looking forward to W. Kamau Bells upcoming standup performances at Langston Hughes Performing Arts Institute on January 24, but now were even more excited. It was just annouced that the nights two��.

BOOKS OF THE TIMES

THE LIFE OF LANGSTON HUGHES. Vol. I: 1902-1941. I, Too, Sing America. By Arnold Rampersad. 468 pages. Illustrated. Oxford. $22.95. LANGSTON HUGHES was only 21 when he wrote the poem that first made him famous, The Weary Blues. More than two years passed before he was ready to show it to the world; then, in 1925, he submitted it as one of his entries for a competition for black writers, a widely-noted affair (the judges included Eugene ONeill and Alexander Woolcott) culminating in a banquet at the Fifth Avenue Restaurant, where it was announced that The Weary Blues had won first prize in the poetry section. After the announcement, the poem was recited - magnificently, according to Arnold Rampersad in his new biography of Hughes - by the writer James Weldon Johnson: Down on Lenox Avenue the other night By the pale dull pallor of an old gas light It must have been a very powerful moment.

Crime and Comeuppance With a Sassy, Jazzy Heart

Just when all that seems left in the holiday theater stocking are lumps of coal, there, stuffed deep in the toe (actually the Hudson Guild Theater), is a nearly overlooked gift: Little Ham, a jazzy musical bauble with nothing to recommend it but fine songs, a cast with sass and charm and an attractive, modest production that is too modest for the material. This is one show that a little lavish pizazz, the kind that costs a lot, wouldnt hurt at all. It deserves the celebratory noise of a few bells and whistles. The musical, which has been in intermittent development since 1985, is drawn from, if not exactly based on, the play of the same name by Langston Hughes. A comedy written in 1936 and set in the late 1920s, the play was both fond and biting, a portrait of a Harlem neighborhood in the thrall of the numbers racket.. Bruce Weber reviews Langston Hughess Little Ham, musical based on Hughess play; photo (M)

Satchmo; TRUMPETERS TALE. The Story of Young Louis Armstrong. By Jeanette Eaton. Illustrated by Elton C. Fax. 191 pp. New York: William Morrow & Co. $3.

Satchmo; TRUMPETERS TALE. The Story of Young Louis Armstrong. By Jeanette Eaton. Illustrated by Elton C. Fax. 191 pp. New York: William Morrow & Co. $3.

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